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وان قد صف در نازان چون سنان ** گشته در پیری دو تا هم‌چون کمان 970
- And the tall proud figure, piercing the ranks like a spear-point, in old age is bent double like a bow.
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رنگ لاله گشته رنگ زعفران ** زور شیرش گشته چون زهره‌ی زنان
- The colour of red anemone becomes the colour of saffron; his lion-like strength becomes as the courage of women.
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آنک مردی در بغل کردی به فن ** می‌بگیرندش بغل وقت شدن
- He that used to grip a man in his arms by skill (in wrestling), (now) they take hold of his arms (to support him) at the time of departure.
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این خود آثار غم و پژمردگیست ** هر یکی زینها رسول مردگیست
- Truly these are marks of pain and decay: every one of them is a messenger of death.
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تفسیر اسفل سافلین الا الذین آمنوا و عملوا الصالحات فلهم اجر غیر مومنون
- Commentary on “The lowest of the low, except those who have believed and wrought good works; for they shall have a reward that is not cut off.”
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لیک گر باشد طبیبش نور حق ** نیست از پیری و تب نقصان و دق
- But if his physician be the Light of God, there is no loss or crushing blow (that he will suffer) from old age and fever.
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سستی او هست چون سستی مست ** که اندر آن سستیش رشک رستمست 975
- His weakness is like the weakness of the intoxicated, for in his weakness he is the envy of a Rustam.
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گر بمیرد استخوانش غرق ذوق ** ذره ذره‌ش در شعاع نور شوق
- If he die, his bones are drowned in (spiritual) savour; every mote of him is (floating) in the beams of the light of love-desire.
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وآنک آنش نیست باغ بی‌ثمر ** که خزانش می‌کند زیر و زبر
- And he who hath not that (Light) is an orchard without fruit, which the autumn brings to ruin.
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گل نماند خارها ماند سیاه ** زرد و بی‌مغز آمده چون تل کاه
- The roses remain not; (only) the black thorns remain: it becomes pale and pithless like a heap of straw.
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تا چه زلت کرد آن باغ ای خدا ** که ازو این حله‌ها گردد جدا
- O God, I wonder what fault did that orchard commit, that these (beautiful) robes should be stripped from it.